LYTTELTON

George William Lyttelton , 4 Baron (eld. son of 3 baron Lyttelton 1782–1837). b. Saville row, London 31 March 1817; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Camb., chancellor’s medallist and bracketed senior cla ic 1838, B.A. and M.A. 1838, LL.D. 1862; D.C.L. Oxf. 1870; lord lieut. of Worcs. 7 Nov. 1839 to death; principal of Queen’s coll. Birmingham 1845; the first pres. of Birmingham and midland institute 1853; a founder of Diocesan training college for schoolmasters at Saltley opened 1852, pres. many years; under secretary of state for the colonies Jany. to July 1846; chairman of the Canterbury A ociation 1849 which founded province of Canterbury, New Zealand 1850, the seaport of Lyttelton near Christ church, N.Z. was called after him; a public schools inquiry comr. 1861; chief comr. of endowed schools 1869–74; F.R.S. 30 April 1840; chairman of Worcester cathedral restoration committee; P.C. 15 Feb. 1869; K.C.M.G. 30 June 1869; pres. of British che a ociation some years; published with W. E. Gladstone a volume of translations into Greek and Latin entitled Ex voto communi in memoriam duplicum nuptiarum viii Kal. Aug. MDCCCXXXIX; edited several of his father’s works and was author of The four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles with notes 1856; New Zealand and the Canterbury colony 1859; The final court of appeal in causes affecting the doctrine of the church of England 1864; Ephemera Series 1, 2, 1865–72; Two lectures on a visit to the Canterbury colony 1868; committed suicide by jumping out of window at 18 Park crescent, London 19 April 1876. bur. Hagley churchyard 22 April. British Medical Journal 29 April 1876 pp. 542–3; I.L.N. xxvii 44 (1855), portrait , lxviii 421, 430 (1876), portrait ; Graphic , xiii 416 (1876), portrait ; Walford’s Representative men (1868), portrait 12; Illust. Midland news , i 61 (1869), portrait .